doug3030
15th February 2014, 10:57 PM
This has been driving me batty for a week.
We found some kiddie DVD's for the grandkid at an OP-Shop for $1 each, bought 8 of them, cost $5, interesting maths in op shops.
Well I got them home and put one in my computer to make sure it worked before showing it to the granddaughter, aged 4. Well the computer chucked a spazm and said they were the wrong region code and i had to change my DVD player to region 2. It warned me that I could change regions - I think it was - 4 more times. My first thought was what bull$#!t is this in 2014, an age where a DVD full of data can travel round the world at the speed of light?
I understand that the region codes were there to stop people sharing pirate movies before they are released in a particular country, but seriously, these are probably 10 year-old DVD's. Anyway, enough of my rant on the stupidity of the relevance of region codes in 2014. I may choose to pick that up later but for now I have a more pressing problem.
Although I declined the message offering me the option to change the region code to 2 because I was concerned as to what the impact would be on my ability to play the other DVD's in my collection and a small number of opportunities to change between regions, I elected to leave the DVD region as it was. However, since then, I cannot get the DVD player to read anything. Well not quite, I have gotten it to recognize other DVD's twice by swapping the DVD in the drive for others, be they some of my Taunton Press woodwork ones, or music or Monty Python or whatever but it is totally random and it seems the one the computer recognizes is not the one you want to play.
But it then reverts back to not recognizing anything else for a couple of days of trial and error.
I am not trying to do anything illegal. It started with trying to play a region-coded DVD that was released years ago in another region; I am not trying to infringe anyone's copyright. The "protection" placed on the disks is unfairly depriving me of the use of my DVD player which I also bought and own outright. This is just stupidity on a grand scale.
Interestingly, in my experiments to find out what will and what wont play, the only DVD's that do play are surprisingly some disks that can only be described as "girlie " left in my care by a female friend while she went on holidays, so that her 17-year-old house sitter cannot stumble across them. Lets just say that I have interesting friends and an interesting life and leave it at that before I get into trouble :U.
Does anyone know of a fix for this problem? I have done google searches that tell me that you can download a non-region specific DVD player and when you search for and try to download them the virus scanner goes ballistic.
Any suggestions of what to do?
Cheers
Doug
We found some kiddie DVD's for the grandkid at an OP-Shop for $1 each, bought 8 of them, cost $5, interesting maths in op shops.
Well I got them home and put one in my computer to make sure it worked before showing it to the granddaughter, aged 4. Well the computer chucked a spazm and said they were the wrong region code and i had to change my DVD player to region 2. It warned me that I could change regions - I think it was - 4 more times. My first thought was what bull$#!t is this in 2014, an age where a DVD full of data can travel round the world at the speed of light?
I understand that the region codes were there to stop people sharing pirate movies before they are released in a particular country, but seriously, these are probably 10 year-old DVD's. Anyway, enough of my rant on the stupidity of the relevance of region codes in 2014. I may choose to pick that up later but for now I have a more pressing problem.
Although I declined the message offering me the option to change the region code to 2 because I was concerned as to what the impact would be on my ability to play the other DVD's in my collection and a small number of opportunities to change between regions, I elected to leave the DVD region as it was. However, since then, I cannot get the DVD player to read anything. Well not quite, I have gotten it to recognize other DVD's twice by swapping the DVD in the drive for others, be they some of my Taunton Press woodwork ones, or music or Monty Python or whatever but it is totally random and it seems the one the computer recognizes is not the one you want to play.
But it then reverts back to not recognizing anything else for a couple of days of trial and error.
I am not trying to do anything illegal. It started with trying to play a region-coded DVD that was released years ago in another region; I am not trying to infringe anyone's copyright. The "protection" placed on the disks is unfairly depriving me of the use of my DVD player which I also bought and own outright. This is just stupidity on a grand scale.
Interestingly, in my experiments to find out what will and what wont play, the only DVD's that do play are surprisingly some disks that can only be described as "girlie " left in my care by a female friend while she went on holidays, so that her 17-year-old house sitter cannot stumble across them. Lets just say that I have interesting friends and an interesting life and leave it at that before I get into trouble :U.
Does anyone know of a fix for this problem? I have done google searches that tell me that you can download a non-region specific DVD player and when you search for and try to download them the virus scanner goes ballistic.
Any suggestions of what to do?
Cheers
Doug